Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] Re: Trying to solve unIDs on 540 from January 1993

[timhall1@xxxxxxxxx]

I think the station near Pittsburgh used to play classical before they changed to mouse droppings (Disney).  And there used to be some LPRTs on 540 IIRC.  Levine's stations on 540 (I suppose he had started leasing Tijuana by then; remember they were QRM for his Hesperia station when they first came on around 1991) were changing formats every 3 months back then - jazz, showtunes, traffic, strange off-kilter nostalgia (Tony Bennett's worst-ever recordings worked into EVERY set), and eventually classical.

Unfortunately I think this one will stay UNID... 
73 Tim 
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From: Rick Dau <drummer1965usa@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [ABDX] Re: Trying to solve unIDs on 540 from January 1993

I found the date of the test -- January 4, 1993, the same morning that WNTK-1020 ran a DX test (an hour after KNAK's) and provided me with my first logging from New Hampshire.  I should add that I was living in Iowa City at the time, making California on 540 seem, IMHO, rather unlikely.  The reason I directed this request towards DXers in the Central and Eastern Time Zones is that I highly suspect that one of these culprits is from those regions.  Or perhaps both culprits are.  The fact that New Hampshire was coming in under KDKA indicates that cx to the east were favorable that morning.
 
73,
Rick Dau
South Omaha, Nebraska



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Subject: [ABDX] Re: [NRC-AM] Trying to solve unIDs on 540 from January 1993


  
> Looking for anyone living in Central or Eastern Time Zones who might've
> had a tape recorder rolling during the DX test of KNAK-540 in Utah in
> January 1993 (sorry, can't remember the exact date).  I never got the test
> from KNAK, but I heard two unIDs on 540 that morning that have bedeviled
> me for years.  One was playing classical music (Note: AFTER CBK's s/off!)
> and the other had a rock (or oldies) format with "Brother Louie" by the
> Stories, "Whipping Post" by The Allman Brothers, and "Wild Thing" by the
> Troggs. 

The 540 was almost certainly one of Saul Levine's southern
California/Tijuana pair. It appears the Tijuana 540 didn't become
classical XEBACH until 1998 or thereabouts, so we can probably narrow this
down to the now-defunct KKGO 540 Costa Mesa (which wasn't really in Costa
Mesa, but 90 miles away in Hesperia.)


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